The Connett Connection

My son is only two and he LOVES trains.  It is his favorite thing to play with.  He sleeps with his Henry train every night.  He watches videos on Youtube of trains just going do the track.  Did I mention he LOVES trains? Well, this past week, he has really wanted to "play school" with his sister.  I've let him join in crafts and given him the letter A to color a couple of times and today, I decided to try out a new center activity I made with the intentions of saving it until he was older.  He saw me working on it on the computer and got really excited, "Mommy, train!  I watch it Henry train?"  He thought I was watching a Youtube video with Henry the train in it since the train car I was working on was green.  I explained that I wasn't watching a video but would print out the pictures for him to play with if he wanted me to.  He was super excited about that! After a paper jam (which took me 20 minutes to figure out how to get the ja...

This week went much smoother than the first two!  We had no sick kids this week!  Yay!  While we did school everyday this week, I don't think I remembered to take the pictures I needed for my post, so I'll just post what I do have and hope that next week I do a better job! We continues our unit on apples.  I believe this will be our last week with apples as we exhausted many of my ideas! Here is a picture of our sink or float apple experiment from my Let's Be Scientist series!  This was our first experiment of the year and my daughter loved it!  To read more in depth about this experiment, you can read about it in my " Let's Be Scientists with Apples " post. My son was also enthusiastic this week about learning and participating with his sister.  If you follow my Facebook or Instagram page you would have seen two different craft projects that my kids did this week. Above, you see my son playing with some train cards .  I made these...